Here are the links from around the hockey world, and what I’m reading while hoping efforts to bring back the Quebec Nordiques are highly successful. Or as they say in Quebec, un grand succes.
*Greg Wyshynski, AKA Puck Daddy, has the NHL cracking down on a marijuana company, and pushing them to change their stock exchange listing.
*Fifteen-year-old wunderkind Oliver Wahlstrom, who's had superstar written all over him since his crazy mini 1-on-1 days, has committed to Harvard University after breaking his previous verbal commitment to the University of Maine. Getting college commitments from 15-year-old hockey players seems like a road college hockey wouldn’t want to go down, but it also seems to be the way of the world in the other pro sports these days.
*Rick Telander says that the Patrick Kane incident has already taken all of the joy away from the 2015 Stanley Cup title for the Chicago Blackhawks.
*FOH (Friend of Haggs) Ian Mendes has Daniel Alfredsson on the verge of joining the Ottawa Senators organization in a management capacity.
*Auston Matthews is embarking on a grand hockey experiment by playing his draft year in Switzerland, and it will be interesting to see how it all works out for the possible No. 1 overall pick.
*Speaking of the Quebec Nordiques, Quebec City has moved to the third stage of the NHL expansion process in what’s got to be a very promising development for a hockey market that richly deserves an NHL team.
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*Ex-Rangers defenseman and tough guy Dale Purinton has been busted for his connection to a burglary, per the New York Daily News.
*For something completely different: apparently the stock market took a giant plunge on Friday. That’s never a good thing.